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February Music highlights

Sa 2/21- WDST and Markertek present EMMYLOU HARRIS, SHAWN COLVIN, PATTY GRIFFIN, and BUDDY MILLER at Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston Touring together as Three Girls and Their Buddy, these four illustrious artists have a long history of collaboration, playing together on recordings and various tours. Emmylou Harris has woncount emtwelve Grammys and has cemented her place in American music history, while defying precise categorization over her stellar career. She couldve coasted for millennia on her work with the late Gram Parsons, but thankfully for music lovers, she never did. Shawn Colvin had to endure Wu-Tang Clans ODB stepping on her Grammy moment for Sunny Came Home, but critics and audiences alike agree she earned the honors with taut and evocative songwriting and honest voice. Patty Griffin has had her songs covered by Martina McBride, Bette Midler, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Reba McIntire. She sings as well as she writes, and those ladies had hits, yall. And Buddy Miller was named instrumentalist of the year by the American Music Association in 2007. Those are wicked hard to win. And he writes as well as he plays . . . which is quite frankly sublime. Im running out of superlatives here folks. DONT MISS THIS SHOW! UPAC, 601 Broadway, Kingston,www.upac.org, 845.339.6088. 8 PM

Through March- Spotlight on Muddy Cup/Inquiring Minds, SaugertiesThanks to the good taste and connections of local musician and music scribe (as well as long time Roll music writer and reviewer) Peter Aaron, Muddy Cup/Inquiring Minds has become a much-welcome musical destination with many fine local offerings. Tuesdays are Open Mic, and unless otherwise noted, all shows are 7-9 PM. Muddy Cup/Inquiring Minds, 65 Partition St., Saugerties, www.muddycup.com, 845.246.5775